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Fri 12 Dec 2009Most priceless hard drive data is now recoverable - at a price
The offer to trash a hard drive to see whether its data could be retrieved by Kroll Ontrack’s recovery service proved irresistible. Soon a car was being revved up and the experiment was under way . . .
IT’S THAT unmistakeable sound anyone who works with technology dreads hearing. The whirring, clicking sound you know your PC shouldn’t be making, which suggests your hard drive – containing your precious data – has either passed on or is a digital breath away from giving up the ghost.
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